ac186bab57 You dont just make a sci fi list without Avatar. Bullshit! Reply David Castle February 26, 2016 2:26 am A.I? Really? What could have been a really interesting film in the hands of another director was turned to utter pants by Spielbergs predictable mawkish sentimentality. 91. And Minority Report should have been WAY higher! In fact, it should have been #1 IMO. Dick, but few have been as faithful, or as weird, as Richard Linklaters A Scanner Darkly. When a band of terrorists hijack the president's plane and the president winds up trapped in the walled-off 212 area code, only Kurt Russell's eye-patched Snake Plissken can save him.Past the initial premise and some cool-for-its-day opening computer graphics, Escape From New York is a film that's actually better in your memory than in realitythough nothing can take away from the chandeliers fixed to the hood of Isaac Hayes's car. Its all a bit rubbish and schlocky, obviously, but its not like you watch an Arnie film expectingCinema Paradiso. While protecting the last surviving plant life, Bruce Dern scoots around a giant spacecraft and plays cards with fun helper robots. Full of wonder and scientific curiosity at the uncanny nature of love, and investigating it so minutely that its mathematics themselves become beautiful, we may not be able to answer defintively what it all means, but the films pervasive mood and lingering sustain (down to the polyglot Carruths gauzy cinematography and self-composed ambient score) means its a pleasure to continue puzzling it out, even all this time later. 95% Beauty and The Beast (La Belle et la bte) (1946) 57 27.

Tracking Leonardo DiCaprios dream-thief as he attempts to pull the biggest heist of his career in order to return home to his children and get past the death of his wife, its a thrilling, Bond-aping adventure with a rigorously constructed universe (too rigorous for some) and some of the most memorable images and set-pieces of 21st century cinema up-ended Paris, the corridor fight, the waves on the beach, the spinning top. Some claimed the picture his worst (our review wasnt very charitable), some thought it was a vision from the heavens, and as usual, when the dust has settled, more mannered judgments have taken root (more of a consensus Playlist opinion forms here). If anyone's going to do it, it's Netflix. (94 mins.) Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman Stars: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo 10. A parable of the real-life horrors of apartheid, &#x2018;District 9&#x2019; is a moving and wildly original entry in the sci-fi genre, enhanced by Blomkamp&#x2019;s careful eye for the intricacies of production design. Despite the will of the entire Internet, there will never, ever be a sequel, even though Orson Scott Card has called this the best science-fiction film ever. Interstellar (2013) Perhaps one of the most hotly contested films, sci-fi or otherwise, in recent memory, Christopher Nolans Interstellar received a host of polarizing and emotionally hot reactions. Reply Muhammad Ibn-Raqib May 9, 2016 9:30 pm Nooo! Unless Im blind and missed it! Why wasnt Serenity on this list! That just broke my heart! :'( but swing moon as number 5 really made my day though!!! Great list! Reply Leo May 10, 2016 3:40 pm Is it just me or am I a bit off to think the Matrix trilogy deserved some mention? Reply Rick Pan May 10, 2016 9:43 pm what happen to independence day? Reply Jeremy May 12, 2016 9:18 pm Nice list, youll never please everyone. and your existence is a waste of o2 Reply shridhar pandey April 29, 2016 6:27 am Add your voice to the conversation&hellip;i like the movi children of men ,gravity,moon I liked all film list Reply Alex April 29, 2016 10:06 pm Prometheus was unoriginal garbage based on internet conspiracies and bad science.